Giuseppe Remuzzi

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in Pavia in 1974 and specialised in Clinical and Laboratory Haematology and in Medical Nephrology. He has served as Director of the Public-Private Department of Immunology and Organ Transplant Clinic (a collaboration between Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo and Istituto Mario Negri), as Director of the Department of Medicine, and as Director of the Nephrology and Dialysis Unit of ASST Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Nephrology “per chiara fama” at the University of Milan. He has combined his clinical work in the hospital with intense teaching and research activity. Since the Istituto Mario Negri opened its Bergamo branch in 1984, Giuseppe Remuzzi has coordinated the research activities of the Bergamo site of the Institute and, since 1992, of the “Aldo e Cele Daccò” Clinical Research Centre for Rare Diseases in Ranica (BG). Since July 2018 he has held the role of Director of the “Mario Negri” Institute of Pharmacological Research. He is a member of the editorial board of The Lancet and for 15 years was on the international editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine. He has been appointed member of the American Association of Physicians in Washington and of the Royal College of Physicians in London. Among the many honours he has received, Professor Remuzzi has been awarded the “Jean Hamburger Award” (2005, Singapore) by the International Society of Nephrology, has received from the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) the most prestigious prize in the field of nephrology, the “John P. Peters Award” (November 2007), and the “Lennox K. Black International Prize for Excellence in Medicine” (2018, Philadelphia). From June 2013 to March 2015 he was president of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). He is an honorary citizen of Bergamo (in 2004 he was awarded the gold medal of the Municipality). In 2006 he received from the President of the Republic the title of Commendatore della Repubblica and in 2022 the title of Cavaliere di Gran Croce. He is a columnist for Corriere della Sera.